[WEC Race] WEC 6 HOURS SPA FRANCORCHAMPS

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Irie

Seems the LMP2 drivers think they are driving bumper cars today

And it's the pros that are causing the problem.

Ford doing a reset. Interesting to hear it does take a considerable amount of time to reboot the GTE cars now. Not just an off and on again.

[maximus]

Yeah brutal race so far, almost like a Touring car race.

[airbusA346]

#98 given 10 second penalty for grid infringement.

[kvenom]

Rain expected at 18:00

[Akrapovic]

Hartley not bothering with corners anymore.

[XtC24]

I will have to go out for 2 hours.
Could someone recommend some live text, please?

[maximus]

I wish Martin Haven would stop calling all overtakes down the inside "dive bombs" that's not what a dive bomb move is! He is a better commentator than Toby Moody though.

[Oracle]

#7 dominating.

#1 catching #8 quite comfortably at this phase of the race.

[kvenom]

Originally Posted by Oracle

#7 dominating.

#1 catching #8 quite comfortably at this phase of the race.

I think the #8 started on a used set and is double stinting them as well.

[Ferrari333SP]

I found this cool live timing: https://timing.71wytham.org.uk/timin...00ca19b897a5f6

[airbusA346]

AF Corse contact.

[maximus]

what is the #51 Ferrari playing at!?

[Akrapovic]

I'm glad BTCC is at Thruxton tomorrow. There just isn't enough panel beating in this race.

[kvenom]

That was a bit of mess between the ferraris.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Hartley not bothering with corners again.

Edited for clarity

[kvenom]

Mighty impressed by Conway, he's flying with a 1:58.7 on a double stinted set.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by kvenom

Mighty impressed by Conway, he's flying with a 1:58.7 on a double stinted set.

Conway's been great. Kobayashi was also on a provisional pole lap in qualifying (by a few tenths) as well. The #7 is clearly in its sweet spot this weekend.

[Akrapovic]

#9 with what appears to be overheating front brakes. Adjusted during the stop.

[AndreasDavour]

#7 looks really good indeed.

[Oracle]

Coming back to Porsche. Slightly out with of sync with strategy I know but this kind of happened in Silverstone too.

#2 slow puncture

[Artur]

Originally Posted by maximus

I wish Martin Haven would stop calling all overtakes down the inside "dive bombs" that's not what a dive bomb move is! He is a better commentator than Toby Moody though.

To be fair to him, I think quite a few of the overtakes, on the inside, were dive bombs. Sometimes watching this race felt like when I did while watching GP2, in the past, ie, quite a few crazy dive bombs.

But, overall, this has been quite a good race. I still hope for far more ToyotaxPorsche, though

[justracing]

Originally Posted by maximus

I wish Martin Haven would stop calling all overtakes down the inside "dive bombs" that's not what a dive bomb move is! He is a better commentator than Toby Moody though.

The term is straight out of the Murray(my pants are on fire) Walker's commentators notebook

[outnumbered]

I'm finding it hard to follow what's happening in P2. G-drive seemed to have dropped back quite a bit, but are now back in the lead, and generally there's been quite a lot of changing of pace. Is this mainly a consequence of the restricted tyre allocations, and consequent drop offs in performance ?

[Artur]

that was too easy and Davidson vanished in front already.

[Oracle]

Different strategies, but I can't help but feel I'd have held the #8 up for a lap or two longer. I don't think it lost any time at all, but then neither did the #2.